@BarbChamberlain @grammargirl

And yet... https://dosthana.com/extremely-rare-albino-blackbird-observed-in-north-devon-england/

The existence of so many exceptions to rules and descriptions is also a fun and fascinating thing about language.

#albino #blackbird #birds #linguistics #GrammarDay

Definitely Marching 4th into #GrammarDay
👓

https://www.gocomics.com/day-by-dave/2023/03/04

Old English Wordhord just joined Mastodon! @OEWordhord

It's a happy National #GrammarDay indeed!

@grammargirl So, so many wonderful things about language to love! Sound, history, how it looks on the page, evolution of meanings over time, what it meant for human evolution....

A line I use every once in a while to prompt people to think about the flexibility of language: All blackbirds are black birds, but not all black birds are blackbirds.

#GrammarDay #linguistics #words #WordPlay

@matthewmuses @grammargirl I feel as if that sentence should have started with "Heres". 😄 #GrammarDay #punctuation #words

@michaelgemar @jeffjarvis @grammargirl Proper use of the em-dash and en-dash has to be right up there with the Oxford comma. #GrammarDay #words #punctuation

For #NationalGrammarDay , I'll note that in our department you know your dissertation is finished when your advisor asks you to change all the "thats" to "whiches" and then, on the next revision, all the "whiches" to "thats".

#grammarday

Congratulations to all those who entered the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. Check out more on our winners, as well as a bunch of honorable mentions, on the ACES website.

https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/winning-poem-reflects-our-shyness-about-grammar

#GrammarDay

And our first-place poem in the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest captures our self doubt about our own grammatical abilities:

I grade grammar, guiltily.
Ill-suited for
the task, only steps
ahead of my students, my
own writing treated with disdain
by Grammarly.

Oh, that IS better,
the removed confusion
settling like mud out of lake water,
leaving only what I meant
to say.

It's by Jay Walters of Alabama.

#GrammarDay

https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/winning-poem-reflects-our-shyness-about-grammar

And second place in the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest, by Philadelphia grammar columnist Jeffrey Barg:

Lie with me and lay me
Your usage is oh so right
“Lay” takes a direct object
So make me your object tonight

We will have lain there
Until the morning light
You will have laid me
My brilliant grammatical knight

#GrammarDay

We have a winner in the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest.

But first, third place by Amanda Louise Davis-Obigbesan:

"So, have you eaten Grandma?"
With one resounding crunch,
"Without a comma, darling,
'Twas quite a shocking lunch."

#GrammarDay

Happy #GrammarDay! May your modifiers not dangle and all your verbs agree.

Happy National Grammar Day.

Our celebrity judges for the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest have made their choices, and we'll announce the winner here at noon. Follow the #GrammarDay hashtag.

Thanks for all the hard work from this year's judges, who stayed up all night in a drafty cabin in the Canadian woods culling through the entries: @Dottyeyes, @IvaCheung, @grammargirl, @ElizdAnjou@twitter.com, @CMValgardson@twitter.com.

https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/celebrate-national-grammar-day-2023-with-poetry

Chacun á son urge to badmouth semicolons, I guess. I, on the other hand, love them. #grammarday

I, too, dislike it: the
hundred visions and revisions,
altering where I alteration spy
in these hedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines;
but we strive, we seek, we find, and never yield.
...It will do it by itself?
Look on our words, ChatGPT--and despair!

by Chingshun J Sheu
(See entries for #grammarday poetry contest)

@jeffjarvis @grammargirl Oh my goodness! ***Any*** comma!! 😂 😭 (These are great ways to get children thinking about grammar and punctuation, by the way—no small thing in the age of sloppy texts and email!)

#GrammarDay

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/georgias-kandiss-taylors-jesus-guns-babies-sign-clear-christian-nation-rcna30331

Happy National Grammar Day!

It's a great day to spend time thinking about the joys and wonders of language.

Share your favorite word or your favorite fascinating tidbit about language!

#GrammarDay

For those of you on LinkedIn, I've made my "Better Writing" course free for 24 hours to celebrate National #GrammarDay.

Your 24-hour access starts when you click the link to start the course.

By tomorrow, you can know how to write in active voice, write better lists, and break up run-on sentences to march forth and write with confidence.

And if that isn't enticing enough, well, you also get to see my pre-pandemic hair. :)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grammargirl_to-help-you-celebrate-national-grammar-day-activity-7037244023580876800-ZYn6

#grammar #AmWriting #AmEditing

It's National Grammar Day Eve! Tomorrow, we march forth to celebrate all things grammatical. Celebrate early by sharing a grammar-related poem with the #GrammarDay hashtag, and then submit it to the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest: https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/celebrate-national-grammar-day-2023-with-poetry

And check out the entries so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W3Ud9rcZE62ARmgZxKLgN1q1QJJHbngzltSsKBOeCMA/edit#gid=1777179008

Check out the entries so far in the in National #GrammarDay poetry contest! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W3Ud9rcZE62ARmgZxKLgN1q1QJJHbngzltSsKBOeCMA/edit#gid=1777179008

Think you can do better? Enter here. https://aceseditors.org/news/2023/celebrate-national-grammar-day-2023-with-poetry